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Tsun fever!! Anything above 38 is firmly "stay in bed" territory. Is the drop in readership that significant? I know for one that I always read both.

Sure, handwaving valid setting considerations away is lazy writing. But it seems pretty clear that the goal of most such stories is having a character that is subordinate to the protagonist without the need to establish any meaningful reason for such subordination, so they jump immediately to...

They're junkies. Junkies do insane stuff like that all the time, it really feels like the mangaka is writing from experience

Surprised Alvin hasn't dropped her yet!

Why would she even need points in height? Petite women are cute, and she is.

"Gypsy" is a simple exonym, no more inherently offensive for it than "German", "Russian" or "Chinese" (none of whom call themselves that, either, surprisingly). It only becomes a slur if used as a slur. And if you demand a different word to be used as replacement, it will simply be used as a...

I must say this manga's description has been outstandingly effective at killing any interest I could've had so far. What a strange decision. UPD: Fifteen chapters later, and I see it now: it was to save people from lethal doses of cringe.

Extremely married behaviour.

Every sketch we see in the frame, including the winners, is done in a realist style. There is no toolset to make a realist sketch "anything" but what is depicted, unless the viewer is ready to blow meanings out of their own ass.

So far, it's going exactly the surupy road we predicted in the comments to the previous chapter, haha. She's a teacher, a paid professional. Her job is not just pointing out the issues, it's offering ways to overcome these. Just like a Math teacher looks through your solution to identify the...

In a realistic still life sketch, he went for realism? What a catastrophe! When Inuyama tries to pull a log from gacha for seeing eroticism in it, it's played as a joke. Now him bringing out eroticism in an effing cup is discussed as anything but. Then ask a hundred viewers of a realist sketch...

They are not telling him how to improve precisely because, as you have yourself suggested, the filter is not being good or not, it's doing things the way they want him to, purely to let them know he's paid the bribe (prep course price). You're right, of course. With the manga tropes as they...

I like how he's asking whether she's lost it as if she ever had it in the first place.

Sure, no prob. But why pretend this is anything but legalized corruption, then? Talk about "love" and whatever? "Do it the way we taught you at the paid prep course, or you'll never pass however good at the subject you are".

My eye is drawn towards the shining point at the base of the faucet, below the handle and its fat black reflection, which dominates the piece's colours. But regardless, this is precisely an example of a still life used for the metaphorical meaning of the items chosen to be depicted - something...

It serves as evidence against the idea that he can take liberties with his work, such as perhaps pick any style other than realist. Popularity does not equal quality: ponzi schemes are popular, totalitarian cults are popular, your most hated politician is popular. So I feel we must take the...

There are different perspectives because the class sits around the still life they're drawing, so each artist sees their own perspective. Sure, that would've been helpful - except that she's said nothing of the kind. They weren't shown not to be hyperrealist, either. Call me a philistine but...

It is a realistic still life, how the hell do you make anything interesting out of it and convey any emotion to anyone who's not an exalted clown able to blow meanings out of their own ass, while staying true to the realism? As long as you don't get to choose the objects (so you can't pick them...

While mostly true, it's not universally so. A few writers and artists actually want you to feel or think on the questions they pose, in the direction they give. Consider, for instance, Renaissance religious art (which is mostly just illustrations for the morality stories from the Bible), or, for...